Dr. James D. Boys is a Contributing Editor to The Commentator. He is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at King's College London, Associate Professor of International Political Studies at Richmond University in London and a Senior Research Fellow at the Global Policy Institute. Visit his website at www.jamesdboys.com and follow him on Twitter @jamesdboys

This year has not been good for President Obama. Dr. James Boys takes a look at Obama's stunning 2013 policy fumbles, which look even worse in light of the promise brought by his re-election barely one year ago. From domestic to foreign policy, it's been something of a nightmare. How could 2014 possibly be worse?

Ordinary Americans are hugely unsupportive of intervention in Syria. But Obama is politically inoculated; safe from the American electorate and now clearly seeking a political legacy that has thus far eluded him

As the White House prepares to announce Obama’s first visit to Israel as U.S. President, Dr. James D. Boys commences a series of articles considering U.S. foreign policy towards the Middle East and how it has evolved over the past 4 years.